NZ Bio Scientist Nominated For World Technology Award

“The Most Innovative Work of the Greatest
Likely Long-Term Significance”

NEW YORK, NY
– Thursday, October 10, 2013 – The World Technology
Network (The WTN) announced today that New Zealand scientist
Nathan Balasingham has been nominated for a prestigious 2013
World Technology Award in the Individual Biotechnology
category.

The event has been described as the ultimate
global platform to honour visionary contributions in science
and technology and Nathan Balasingham joins an exclusive
club of global corporations and scientists who are deemed by
members of the WTN to be doing the “most innovative work
of the greatest likely long term significance”.

The
World Technology Awards have been presented annually since
2000, as a way to honor those in 20 different categories of
science and technology, and related fields. Nominees for
the 2013 World Technology Awards were selected by the WTN
membership (spread over 60 countries) through an intensive,
global process lasting many months.

Nathan Balasingham
has spent the last 40 years as an entrepreneurial scientist,
inventing, amongst other things, the iconic fruit tonic Kiwi
Crush, and making some outstanding contributions to the
development of New Zealand’s kiwifruit industry. His
revolutionary phytogenic elicitors Agrizest and Biozest are
in the forefront of the fight to manage the current PSA
pandemic, which has decimated the kiwifruit industry over
the past three years.

From his base at
Pukekohe Nathan Balasingham said he was honoured to be
elected as an Associate of the world Technology Network,
which gives him direct access to the most innovative
scientists and technologists around the world.

“For the
Agrizest and Biozest technology to be peer reviewed and
nominated by this global community of people in science and
technology is priceless” he said.

Founder and Chairman
of the World Technology Network, James P Clark, said “The
World Technology Awards program is not only a very inspiring
way to identify and honor the most innovative people and
organizations in the technology world, but it also is a
truly disciplined way for the WTN membership to identify
those who will formally join them as part of our global
community.

“By working to make useful connections
among our members, we look forward to assisting Nathan
Balasingham in continuing to help create our collective
future and change our world." He said.

The winners of the
2013 World Technology Awards will be announced during a
ceremony at the historic Time-Life Building in New York City
on the evening of November 15th at the close of the 12th
Annual World Technology Summit on November 14/15, and
presented by the WTN in association with TIME magazine,
Fortune, CNN, Science/AAAS, and others.

About
Nathan Balasingham

Nathan Balasingham graduated from
Massey University with a Masters Degree in Horticultural
Science with 1st class honours. He is an entrepreneurial
scientist with 40 years product and market development
success.

Nathan has made some outstanding contributions to
the development of the kiwifruit industry. In the late
70’s he researched and registered several pesticides
specifically for use on kiwifruit. In 1983 he initiated the
transformation of the kiwifruit industry from exporter
controlled to grower controlled management body. In the mid
80’s Nathan was involved in research on Bacterial Bud Rot.

He is the inventor of Kiwi Crush, the award winning
iconic kiwifruit drink., and, perhaps most significantly,
the inventor of the phytogenic elicitor Agrizest, now an
important part of the management of the PSA disease in New
Zealand and Italian kiwifruit orchards, and which ultimately
is expected to have a large impact on sustainable global
agricultural
productivity.ends

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